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Islamophobic
08.08.2003 13:19
Sonic
'Why you shouldn't trust the church' booklet
08.08.2003 15:18
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rev. J. Jones
and what if ...
08.08.2003 15:56
DestroyAllReligions
"Mind control" by WHOM, pray tell
08.08.2003 17:25
1) The phenomenon (of religions) is clearly widespread and ancient and found in almost all human cultures. Not only predating "capitalism" by many thousands of years, but equally likely to be found in cultures which are egalitarian as in ones which are class differentiated.
2) The mistake (all to easy to make) is confusing this with the USE to which rulers can put religion. But in non-egalitarian cultures ALL institutions of the culture are "used" by the rulers to reinforce their position.
Thus "war" long predated capitalism, but in a capitalist society wars will have capitalist reasons. That doesn't mean capitalism CAUSES wars, just that the reason for EVERYTHING taking place in a capitalist society will be determined by capitalism. Since non-capitalist and/or pre-capitalist cultures seemed to have no difficulty justifying fighting with their neighbors for other reasons, I see no reason to be optimistic that socialist societies won't be just as able to find just reasons for fighting wars.
NOTE --- This has NOTHING to do with whether religion (as a category) is good or bad for humans. But it DOES have something to do with how the category should be defined.
Mike
e-mail: stepbystepfarm mtdata.com
the bible/tenal/koran IS evil
08.08.2003 22:12
What kind of a moral message is this for a holy scripture? It's alright to murder your nipper if the heavenly voices decree you to?
This is no basis for a moral code or way of life.
Call me an iliberal blunket arseface but i'd lock up anyone who thinks god wants them to murder their son. Religeon is made up of people who cannot work this all out for themselves.
If it's wrong that religeon should be discouraged then all we can hope for is the week come to their senses and realise the fundamental evils that are necessarily entwined with their religious beliefs.
Onwards Secularism!
Viva the fall of Theism!
Harv Informed
The Devils' Paradox...?
10.08.2003 17:24
Haven't some scientist shown evidence for what is termed a "God Spot" on the brain ? (Some kind of increased temporal lobe activity ?) And aren't hallucinogens such as LSD associated with religious experience ? (Look what happened to "The Beatles" and other pop bands of the 70's after taking hallucinogens ?) The clubbers drug of today called "Ecstasy" (often depicted with a dove of peace) is said to make people "Loved-up" and extraordinarily tolerant towards our fellow human - the ethos of religion.
Trying my very best to be impartial to all sciences and religions, I have come to the bold assumption that the bible is the devils paradox, or perhaps to put another way, a Morton's Fork ! Not only is the ego inclined to want to believe in greater meaning for our relatively short existence, but we are indoctrinated to assume those who go to church are moral and good, and therefore above criticism. To believe in religion justifies it's existence, and to refute it also justifies it's existence ! (because to refute it would be seen as the devils work)
Of course if someone like Henry V111, or some other such person who "Modernised" the church, saw religion as a self inflicted paradox of the masses, (or indeed the opium of the masses ) then he, or anyone else, may well have taken advantage of the situation to further their aims, and/or justify their "sins"...
Spartacus Brubaker
woo
13.08.2003 16:02
Viva the fall of Theism!"
Catchy slogan! I admit defeat. Clearly your detailed logical atheism will blow away all my century-old faiths followed by billions... ;-)
God
Hi God,
14.08.2003 14:23
Btw did you hear about the dyslexic devil worshiper who sold his soul to Santa ?
Merry Xmas,
Leo (with Gemini rising...)